Quotes About Perseverance

I remember everything Campbell, she interrupts. If I didn't, this wouldn't be so hard.

In the real world, you can't just turn a page and feel better.

I might never be a cover girl, but I was a girl who could cover it all.

Beliefs are the roads we take to reach our dreams. Believe you can do something—or believe you can't—and you'll be right every time.

It's the Lord's will," she said quietly. "You get through it. You just never get over it.

It's no small feat, finishing a journey, I tell her. But no one ever mentions that once you get there, you will have to turn around and head all the way home.

You're a fixer, Grant mused. You're also a colossal pain in the ass. The thing is, it's the pains in the ass that change the world.

Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?

I knew that all the attributes he was teased for, at age five, were going to work in his favor by the time he was thirty-five…but I couldn't get him there overnight. You can't fast-forward your child's life, no matter how much you want to.

we have to put one foot in front of the other every day and pray it will be better the next time the sun rises.

A jewel's just a rock put under enormous heat and pressure. Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

A fire will burn itself out, unless you open a window and give it fuel.. And when flames are licking at your heels you've got to break a wall or two if you want to escape.

I don't believe in self-pity. I think it's for people who have too much time on their hands. Instead of dreaming of a miracle, you learn to make your own.

people who have been backed into a corner will do anything to fight their way to the center again.

Once you are close enough to see it coming, there's nothing to do but weather the storm.

My mother nods toward Violet and her little friend, sprinkling grass over their mud pies. "This has been going on so much longer than either of us, Kennedy. From where you stepped in, in your life, it looks like we've got miles to go. But me?" She smiles in the direction of the girls. "I look at that, and I guess I'm amazed at how far we've come." —

The problem is that anchors don't just keep you from floating away. Sometimes, they drag you down.

Having to face him at a competency hearing is like getting to hell and finding out that the only food available is raw liver-insult added to injury.

I thought I knew this world. I thought I could control it. But just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away from you.

There were entire days where I did nothing but cry; others where I felt like I'd swallowed a lead plate; some more where I worked really hard at going through the motions of getting dressed and making my bed and studying my vocab words because it was easier than doing anything else.

We are battered and broken, but we're all small miracles.

Your father used to say that being scared just meant you had something worth coming back to Queen Maureen said And he used to tell me he was scared all the time.

As much as you want to hold on to the bitter sore memories that someone has left this world, you are still in it. And the very act of living is a tide: at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded.